Independent Press Top 40 Best Sellers

July

For the week ending

July 5th, 2026

The Independent Publishers Caucus & NEIBA proudly presents the Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers! In partnership with the American Booksellers Association, this new bestseller list identities the top titles from independent presses as represented at independent bookstores across the US.

FICTION

1. The Calamity Club
Kathryn Stockett, Spiegel & Grau, 9781954118812
2. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, 9781945492600
3. John of John 
Douglas Stuart, Grove Press, 9780802167194
4. The Odyssey
Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.), Norton, 9780393356250
5. Heart the Lover
Lily King, Grove Press, 9780802165176
6. Six of Crows: A Darker Shore: Letters from Ketterdam
Leigh Bardugo, Insight Editions, 9798337404356
7. Taiwan Travelogue
Shuang-zi Yang, Graywolf Press, 9781644453155
8. On the Calculation of Volume (Book I)
Solvej Balle, Barbara J. Haveland (Transl.), New Directions, 9780811237253
9. I See You've Called in Dead
John Kenney, Zibby Publishing, 9798989923021
10. Harvest Season (The Seasons of Carnage Trilogy #2)
Brynne Weaver, Slowburn, 9781638932123
11. Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan, Grove Press, 9780802158741
12. Stoner
John Williams, NYRB Classics, 9781590171998
13. Lights Out (Into Darkness Series #1)
Navessa Allen, Slowburn, 9781638932239
14. The Very Definition of Love (The Bancroft Sisters)
Sophia Benoit, Slowburn, 9781638933557
15. Culpability
Bruce Holsinger, Spiegel & Grau, 9781954118966
16. The Iliad
Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.), W. W. Norton & Company, 9781324076148
17. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 3
Beth Brower, Rhysdon Press, 9780998063638
18. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4
Beth Brower, Rhysdon Press, 9780998063645
19. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 2
Beth Brower, Rhysdon Press, 9780998063621
20. Writers & Lovers
Lily King, Grove Press, 9780802148544
21. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1
Beth Brower, Rhysdon Press, 9780998063614
22. Foster
Claire Keegan, Grove Press, 9780802160140
23. House of Rayne: Deluxe Limited Edition
Harley Laroux, Kensington, 9781496756206
24. Victorian Psycho: A Novel
Virginia Feito, Liveright, 9781324097785
25. My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, 9781609450786
26. Kindred
Octavia E. Butler, Beacon Press, 9780807083697
27. Orbital
Samantha Harvey, Grove Press, 9780802163622
28. At the Edge of the Woods: A Novel
Kathryn Bromwich, Two Dollar Radio, 9781953387615
29. On the Calculation of Volume (Book II)
Solvej Balle, New Directions, 9780811237277
30. Witch Hat Atelier 1
Kamome Shirahama, Kodansha Comics, 9781632367709
31. The Employees: A workplace novel of the 22nd century
Olga Ravn, New Directions, 9780811234825
32. Gray After Dark: Deluxe Stenciled Edges
Noelle West Ihli, Kensington, 9781496758026
33. Game On
Navessa Allen, Slowburn, 9781638932277
34. The King in Yellow Deluxe Edition
Robert W. Chambers, Pushkin Press, 9781782695653
35. Butcher & Blackbird: The Ruinous Love Trilogy
Brynne Weaver, Slowburn, 9781638931737
36. The Berry Pickers
Amanda Peters, Catapult, 9781646222384
37. Tourist Season (The Seasons of Carnage Trilogy #1)
Brynne Weaver, Slowburn, 9781638934202
38. The Summer Book
Tove Jansson, NYRB Classics, 9781590172681
39. The Covenant of Water
Abraham Verghese, Grove Press, 9780802162731
40. Tata
Valerie Perrin, Europa Editions, 9798889661825

NONFICTION

1. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, 9781571313560
2. The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss
Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris, W. W. Norton & Company, 9781324006848
3. A Resistance History of the United States
Tad Stoermer, Steerforth, 9781586424367
4. The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
John U. Bacon, Liveright, 9781324094647
5. Is a River Alive?
Robert Macfarlane, W. W. Norton & Company, 9781324130734
6. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate--Discoveries from a Secret World
Peter Wohlleben, Greystone Books, 9781771643771
7. The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail
Eric Jay Dolin, Liveright, 9781324096320
8. We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution
Jill Lepore, Liveright, 9781631496080
9. These Truths: A History of the United States
Jill Lepore, W. W. Norton & Company, 9781324130765
10. The Fix: Saving America from the Corruption of a Mob-Style Government
Barbara McQuade, Seven Stories Press, 9781644215555
11. Too L.A.: Letters Never Sent (But Some Were)
Eve Babitz, New York Review Books, 9781681379593
12. Mutual Aid: New and Expanded Edition: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)
Dean Spade, Verso, 9781836742555
13. The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary
Terry Tempest Williams, Grove Press, 9780802165848
14. A Philosophy of Walking
Frédéric Gros, John Howe (Transl.), Verso, 9781804290446
15. A Queer History of the United States: Revised And Expanded (ReVisioning History)
Michael Bronski, Beacon Press, 9780807054765
16. Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground
Zayd Ayers Dohrn, W. W. Norton & Company, 9781324089315
17. Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old
Mary Beard, University of Chicago Press, 9780226834245
18. Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl, Beacon Press, 9780807014271
19. The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change
Rebecca Solnit, Haymarket Books, 9798888904510
20. Ursula K. Le Guin's Book of Cats
Ursula K. Le Guin, Library of America, 9781598538298
21. Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature
Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian, Spiegel & Grau, 9781966302407
22. Constitution of the United States
Founding Fathers, Applewood Books, 9781557091055
23. Guinness World Records 2026
Guinness World Records, Guinness World Records, 9781913484750
24. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Oregon State University Press, 9780870714993
25. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Richard Rothstein, Liveright, 9781631494536
26. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
Margaret Renkl, Spiegel & Grau, 9781954118461
27. S.P.Q.R.: A History of Ancient Rome
Mary Beard, Liveright, 9781631492228
28. How to Relax (Mindfulness Essentials #5)
Thich Nhat Hanh, Parallax Press, 9781941529089
29. The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon, Grove Press, 9780802158635
30. On Bullshit: Anniversary Edition
Harry G. Frankfurt, Princeton University Press, 9780691276786
31. A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps
Jonn Elledge, The Experiment, 9798893030822
32. On Democracy
Walt Whitman, Library of America, 9781598538465
33. How to Resist Amazon and Why: The Fight for Local Economics, Data Privacy, Fair Labor, Independent Bookstores, and a People-Powered Future!
Danny Caine, Microcosm Publishing, 9781648411236
34. Another Kind of Freedom
Pema Chodron, Shambhala, 9781645473268
35. How to Focus (Mindfulness Essentials #9)
Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (Illus.), Parallax Press, 9781952692178
36. I'm Just a Little Guy: How to Escape the Horrors and Get Back to Dillydallying
Charlie James, Paige Tompkins (Illus.), Quirk Books, 9781683694946
37. Gender Queer: A Memoir
Maia Kobabe, Oni Press, 9781549304002
38. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Liveright, 9781631499050
39. Meditations
Marcus Aurelius, Liveright, 9781324096399
40. Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature
Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian, Spiegel & Grau, 9781954118904